FIERCE FIGHTING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 568, 4 December 1915, Page 9

FIERCE FIGHTING.

BATTLES AT THE DARDANELLES, TURKISH REPORT ANNOUNCES BRITISH REPULSE. (Received December 4, 9.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 3. A Turkish communique states: — There has been firece bomb fighting at some points on the Dardanelles front. . Two enemy armoured cruisers near Anafarta, and two near Ari Burnu and Sedd-ul-Bahr, supported the-fire of the land batteries. Our artillery replied, damaging the trenches, destroying the machine gun§ M position at Anafarta, and some bomb throwers' positions at Ari Burnu. Our artillery hit the cruiser off Sedd-ul-Bahr three times, forcing it to retreat. An aeroplane dropped bombs on an enemy torpedo boat, which became stranded on the northern shore of the Gulf of Saros. -